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Woman Pleads Guilty To Role In Cold Case Murder

DENVER (CBS4) – A woman accused of witnessing a murder of another woman and then intentionally misdirecting the original investigation has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a crime of violence count.

Lynn Kimbrough with the district attorney’s office said Marie Lynn Marone, 40, watched John Vazquez, 30, stab 36-year-old Renee Ealy to death in June of 2000 in her apartment in the 1100 block of South Cherry Street.

“Marone was originally charged with first-degree murder. In exchange for her guilty plea to second-degree murder, the first-degree murder count was dismissed,” Kimbrough said in a statement.

Vazquez was convicted of first-degree murder after deliberation and first-degree murder-felony murder in Ealy’s death last year. He is serving life in prison without parole.